Nov 25, 2016

Self-lacing Shoes > Nike > Patent

Nike made hundreds of nerd dreams come true by bringing the self-lacing shoes to market. All for a noble cause, too (proceeds to go to Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research).

One of the patents backing this shoe appears to be US8769844, which describes a sensor controlled drive mechanism to enable automatic tying of laces.A casual search takes to many interesting inventions, such as: